| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | scrappy(at)hub(dot)org (The Hermit Hacker) |
| Cc: | maartenb(at)dutepp0(dot)et(dot)tudelft(dot)nl, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Copyright question: GPL patches for non-GPL packages (fwd) |
| Date: | 1998-01-25 04:20:32 |
| Message-ID: | 199801250420.XAA28185@candle.pha.pa.us |
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>
> On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I read this message on the debian development list. Thought it might be
> > of interest to scrappy on the PostODBC thingie...
>
> Damn, to say I hate copyrights isn't saying enough :) Okay, I
> guess the first thing to note is that PostODBC actually falls under the
> LGPL vs the GPL, which appears to have slightly more lax restrictions on
> how it gets included with other packages...
>
> Now, with that in mind, should we remove the PostODBC stuff from
> the interfaces directory an dmove it to the contrib directory? Or remove
> it all together? Or leave it where it is?
>
Leave it. The posting talks about intermixing source code. In our
case, it is separate, and that is enough. BSDI ships GNU utilities, but
does not have the entire OS under GPL, and that is GPL, not LGPL.
--
Bruce Momjian
maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us
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